The book is well summarized in its subtitle. The conclusion
elaborates a bit further, stating that with the leftist environmentalist
agenda, "the issue really isn't the issue. This is not about
the climate, it is not about jobs, and it is not about national
security."

The issue is to transfer power, wealth, and decision-making from
individual producers and consumers to big government and its retainers,
including environmental activist groups, purportedly to save us from the
latest apocalyptic threat. There are about 100 notes on about 80 pages
documenting numerous examples.

Horner exposes the radical background of some of the players.
Climate czarina Carol Browner, who appears at the President's side
for all manner of critical announcements, was appointed as a senior
adviser, thereby circumventing the normal process of Senate
confirmation. A Senate probe might reveal that Browner is a commissioner
for a project of Socialist International, and that while a business
partner of Madeleine Albright, she went to Russia to say that she
didn't want the United States to be the leading state in the world
any longer. During her tenure as head of the Environmental Protection
Agency under Clinton, she ordered her computer files to be deleted just
after a federal court enjoined her to preserve them.

The Administration's war on energy, especially the war on
natural gas, is also a war on agriculture, Horner says. As the cost of
natural gas goes up, so does the cost of fertilizer, and therefore food.
He states, "Agriculture has long been a target of the Greens, who
will never forgive us for managing to feed all of those people ... the
enviros insisted would starve if they, horror of horrors, managed to be
born."

The Green agenda stands for money, Horner states, providing many
examples. Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, helped to
create Exelon, which is "the president's utility,"
according to Exelon's chief lobbyist. Exelon would reap about $1
billion per year in windfall profits under a carbon trading scheme, but
its fortunes are not too bright without a carbon price of some sort.

Horner's quotations from supposed capitalists who are
collaborating in schemes to destroy capitalism remind me of
rationalizations from the AMA: "It's inevitable";
"you can't just say 'no'"; or "you've
got to be at the table or you're on the menu. "As Horner
observes, such useful idiots naively seek to employ government
defensively against something worse.

Passing any part of the Green agenda is dangerous, Horner warns.
Regulatory regimes are vastly simpler to create than to dismantle. Thus
the rent seekers intent on a "cap and trade" scheme are
willing to compromise on adopting anything just to get the scheme in
place. He points out identical language buried in both House and Senate
versions of "cap and trade" bills, "ensuring that all
laws on the books shall now be construed as 'global warming'
regimes and shall be employed to that end"[emphasis in original].

One of Horner's subheadings is, "How many unionized
slacker federal bureaucrats does it take to change a light bulb?"
This is really not a funny joke, as he quotes Obama himself promising to
"hire young people who don't have a trade and give them a
trade ... changing light bulbs ...."

If you have hopes that the threats of the United States becoming a
Third World tyranny are overblown, Horner's book will probably dash
them. His main hope is that Americans may wake up soon enough.